Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of USB_on_Ubuntu_7.04

Timestamp:

Jun 14, 2007 3:49:17 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Michael Thayer

Comment:

Added a howto on setting up USB on Ubuntu 7.04

USB_on_Ubuntu_7.04

@@ +1 @@
+= Setting up USB on Ubuntu 7.04 =
+Contributed by Ibrahim Ben Faruhn, 2007/06/14
+
+After I had a taken a look into the insides of Ubuntu 7.04, I managed to get !VirtualBox's USB-Support in that system in such a way that the user only needs to be a member of a group called usbusers.  This howto describes how I did it.
+
+Basically, you just have to tell Ubuntu that a group called usbusers should have read
+and write access to all usb devices.
+
+1. Create a group called usbusers
+
+2. Add yourself to this group
+
+3. Edit the file /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules (for this, you must have administrative privileges)
+
+    3.1 Search for the following lines
+{{{
+# USB devices (usbfs replacement)
+SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device",                    MODE="0664"
+}}}
+
+    3.2 Change them to the following
+{{{
+# USB devices (usbfs replacement)
+SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", GROUP="usbusers", MODE="0664"
+}}}
+
+4. Restart udev:
+{{{
+sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
+}}}
+
+5. You should now have write access to all usb devices.